@xlrstik do you see the 8 audio outputs of the Blackmagic converter in your audio midi setup (I am assuming you are on osx).
Aggregate outputs should be transparent to any software once they are configured.
I just like to second this! Coming from party/live visuals, going to commercial and musical productions, but also Opera and fine Art festivals and now at municipal theatre.
I have experience with all of them (disguise, Watchout, Wings, Pandoras, milllumin, Touchdesigner and Resolume (starting with 3.x , back in the days and moving to Izzy shortly after, because of limited layers :P ). Non of them have the combined balance of usability, lerning curve and 'give it to the client's hands' probability, as Isadora does! Call it scalability. The price/needed feature combination is far off anyways.
We now are running Wings successor Pixera and I so often miss the scene functionality and the logic possibiltys, beside alot of other issues :D.
The only real missing functionality, which is holding back the switch, are the frame synced multi server/device distribution and the somewhat oldschool GUI (which is just a psychological issue ;-) ).
For most commercial users, probably is the missing hardware complete system solutions + (official) service.
It´s a aggregated output i need - en soundcard with 4 out and 1 blackmagic hdmi to SDI converter with 8 out. I will look into Blackhole option - Thanks
Isadora 3.2.6 ARM, Mac M2 Max, MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1
Opening an Isadora 2 file from 2014 and replacing missing media will cause the project to open completely blank.
Workaround:
Clicking "skip all files" will open the project successfully. Replacing missing media afterward in the converted Isadora 3 file causes no problems.
Check out this thread: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/6752/sound-routing-software
Also, if I understand correctly, what you want is a multi-output device, not an aggregate audio device.
i get good results using Blackhole on Mac OS. It's a bit fiddly to get it installed, but you can set up Aggregate and Multi-output settings in AudioMidi Setup prefs.
Once this is done, Isadora will see these as outputs and you can send separate signals from each movie or audio player.
Other people can give better tech. advice than me, but this is my experience.
The link below also offers a Windows-based alternative, which I haven't tried:
How do i send audio to multi outputs at once ? seems that aggregate device dont send out to mere then 2 channels.
Any ideas ?
@dillthekraut Thank a lot ! That would have been what I would have done (more or less) but I was in a production so I didn't have time and resources to test it in that way. I'll definitely look into it and report it here as soon as I can. Interesting case
@mark_m Ahah same thing happening to me ! As I'm trying to push more and more of our live events over to Isadora (We mostly use Watchout and/or Disguise on larger productions) but for most corporate gigs, of all sizes, I would say 95% of them would be abundantly well-served with Isadora. But the last standing blockade is always the redundancy. Now @Woland created this ingenious way for me to solidly implement Isadora as a totally viable, relevant solution throughout our operations.
I just want to say what valuable and important work this is: I recently lost an Isadora vs Disguise argument on a production, on the very basis that Isadora didn't have a built-in automatic fallover the way that Disguise systems do. I would rather program in Isadora than Disguise, and if I can demonstrate this kind of redundancy I wouldn't lost these arguments again :-)